9 Months Old!

Just chillin' in my new baby pool:

It looks like I'm a nekkid baby in this picture. Teeheehee.

Mommy, I LOVE my new baby pool!

Can you see the itty bitty hairs growin' out my head?!

Abby's 9 month appointment was yesterday and she did fabulously! She was in a great mood and showed off all of her latest "tricks" to Dr. Cheeks (love that doctor) and didn't even cry when they did the finger prick to test her iron.

Here are her 9 month stats:

Height: 26inches - 9th percentile

Weight: 16lbs 14.5oz - 10th percentile

Head: 42.5cm - 12th percentile

Dr. Cheeks said Abby should start on more finger-foods, so she got to have some little pieces of cheese yesterday! She loved it - of course, who doesn't love cheese?? I think a person who doesn't love cheese is a person not to be trusted. But anyways...

After the appointment, we bought a brand new straw-sippy-cup to celebrate and Ab by proceeded to chew on the straw all afternoon and then complain that she couldn't get any out to drink. We also bought a new baby pool and had some sunshine fun.

I can't get her to do them on camera, but here's the new stuff Abby's been up to:

• Clapping her hands- sometimes on demand
• Army crawling backwards (a little)
• Rolling from back to belly
• Rolling from belly to back
• Spinning while on her belly to get a toy
• Trying to pull up
• Saying Dadadadadad when she's mad
• Trying to cruise from one place to another
• Taking HIGH steps
• Eating finger foods
• Laughing like crazy when you play peek-a-boo
• Making little excited grunts when you ask her "are you hungry?" or "would you like some milk/a bottle?"
• Sleeping from 8:30pm - 7am
• Sitting up really well and hardly ever falling over
• Getting little toys out of a box
• Picking up puffs with her thumb and finger
• Riding in a shopping cart
• Sitting in a highchair
• Growing the longest, prettiest eyelashes you've ever seen!
• Growing more tufts of curly brown/blonde/sometimes strawberry hair
• Being the love of her parents' lives

This past month we visited a specialist to see if Abby needed a helmet for a few weeks to help with a little bit of assymetry in her skull. (Insert baby in a helmet jokes here) The scan showed that she does not, but did reveal that she has a triangular forehead that needs to be looked at by a neurosurgeon. That appointment is in late June, and I'm really hopeful that it will turn out to be nothing and that we will never have to go back up to Scottish Rite again. And so that's what the itty bitty bebe has been up to this month!